The city of Kingsport has been designated a bird sanctuary. Believe me, you can sense it. The air is always filled with the wonderful sounds of birds. Granted, Andy wishes they didn't start singing at 5:00 am, but it is still music.
Within the first few days I was able to add two new birds to my bird list. An Eastern Towhee and a White Throated Sparrow. Both from my kitchen table and both sitting in our "Christmas tree".
So far I've spotted: several types of sparrows, a finch, cardinals, blue jays, robins, towhees, doves, hummingbirds and woodpeckers (not to mention some others I haven't identified yet) in our RV park - oh, and our neighbor's Mallard Duck which we feed corn to...and the bat who almost flew into my hair. On the Greenbelt I saw an Eastern Bluebird and a Great Blue Heron (which took me by surprise). Then there are the hawks, Canadian geese, a variety of ducks, and so on. Just lovely.
We're already planning on putting out some bird feeders and hummingbird feeders. That's not something we've done before in the RV...but we haven't been stationary before either.
We've also seen a family of deer on several occasions now in the RV park. They like the wooded hill above the tent decks.
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Great Blue Herons seem to be everywhere. We've seen them on the Columbia River, the Great Lakes, in Big Bend and Barnegat Bay. And we still think of them as Florida birds.
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